My music is on these channels

Gwen Hughes has released six albums on Fairfield Records, starting with “Torch Life” in the 1990s up until her newest album, “Dancing in the Moonlight,” recorded with her European band, Mono, featuring the greatest hits of their ten years of touring Eastern Europe. Gwen recently signed with Zoho Music for the album, “Native Land,” a recording celebrated by JazzWeekly: “Gwen does it again!”

Always a musical explorer, her latest singles fuse jazz with EDM and hip-hop: “I’d Know Your Voice Anywhere (Mark Alston Deep House Remix)” and “You Make Me Feel Like Candy” (BELOw Remix).”

I’d Know Your Voice Anywhere

Produced by Zac Brown Band’s John Driskell Hopkins regarding this single, Gwen says: “Waiting at a red light one day, I heard a familiar voice came on the radio, being interviewed about a book he had written. I hadn’t heard the voice in twenty years, but I knew who it was immediately. This song came out of that red light.” Many thanks to Elton John’s Matt Still for the stellar vocal mix.

Native Land

“Though I live in the south, this music is universal,” she says. Music hasn’t just been her mode of expression but also a ticket to the world, performing in dive bars in Macon, Georgia to coffee shops in Istanbul, Turkey. At the same time, Gwen delivers an elegant and commanding tribute to the love song itself: “Native Land” features seven original tunes and four covers – all of which are first class tracks. “I hope that by listening to this album, people remember to be true to themselves,” she affirms. By opening her heart, we hear the melody of a radiant and inspired soul.

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The Other Side Of Lonely
These Years

Dancing In The Moonlight

After years of touring the castles and concert stages of Eastern Europe, Gwen and the band Mono finally went in the studio. They laid down their fresh interpretations of her songs (check out the difference between Instead of Light’s “You’re So Good at Loving Me” and what the Slovenians do with it on this album); plus covers of audience favorites like “What’s Going On” and the title track; and brand new songs, like Gwen’s new “Unstuck” and the first ever Slovene-American duet, “Ti Gres.”

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You’re So Good At Loving Me

So Long Ti Gres

Big Kids Jazz

Features two songs that were recorded in consideration for Putumayo Records’ “Jazz Playground” series, “Chocolate” and “Sweet Potato Biscuits and Sour Apple Jam.”

This album also features Gwen’s only recording of her popular Christmas song, “It’s Really Christmas Now”.

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It’s Really Christmas Now
Chocolate

Instead Of Light

Recorded in New York with Danny Kopelson (behind the board on Cassandra Wilson’s Grammy-winning “New Moon Daughter”) at Philip Glass’ “Looking Glass” and Ric Ocasek’s “Dangerous Music” studios. Beautiful music with a sandpaper edge.

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You’re So Good At Loving Me
Time Of The Season

Misplaced Martini

If you like your jazz fun, free-wheeling and sly…this is the music you need to hear. Gwen and the Kats take these classics and reinvent them, all spontaneous, all heartfelt.

Recorded at Sambuca Jazz Café and Parisian Cosmetics Department, Atlanta, GA. Gwen and The ‘Kats are the ambassadors of jazz in the South, converting the masses who would otherwise never step foot in a jazz club…like Gerry Mulligan said once, “bring the fun back to jazz.

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Fever
Mood Indigo
Just A Gigolo
I Wish

Lost and Found

A sensuous fusion of jazz & folk into something extraordinarily new.

Like a great dinner, replete with all kinds of courses. A collection of ruminations on how close and how far love and success can be.

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Annie’s Song
Grace Rain Down
The One Who Fooled Them All

Torch Life

Swing Music played on everything from pizza boxes to big band horns…throaty vocals, searing guitars, pulsing pianos…not a choice between pop and jazz, but a merging of the two, creating romantic nostalgia that is also contemporary.

Gwen’s recording debut. Imagine sitting in a club or cafe, at a remote table, waiting for the new band to make an appearance. The air is heavy with smoke, the brightest light is directed at center stage.

Cigarette girls sashay by, martinis glint in the stage light. But you haven’t stepped back in time. This is now.